i have to tell you my colleague mark voss, i asked him how tall are you? he said i don't know, 6' 2 or so. this is not a slight man. one of the wind gusts that came through when martin o'malley was speaking just about blew him across the street along with those barriers. so that should be a pretty good indicator about some of what we're up against out here. >> sounds a little shaky out there. i think you're right, it's time to bring that mast down and get to safety because no reporting is worth anybody getting hurt. get out of there. >> safety first to you and to mark. great job with them and all the crews out there braving the elements to bring this information back to our sures because the whole point is to keep -- viewers because the whole point is to keep people safe, keep them from going outside and hunker down. >> while you're hunkering we want to hear from you. go over to our facebook page, report your power outage, maybe some damage and we want those photos. >> then you can track the storm on twitter. follow us at wusa9 or topper at topper's weathe